Biography(ies)

Geneviève Chevalier is an artist in media and visual arts, an independent curator, and a professor at the School of Art of Laval University in Québec City. She holds a PhD in Art Theory and Practice from the Université du Québec à Montréal and an MFA from Concordia University. She was an artist in residence at the Québec’s studio in London, in 2020; at Sporobolecentre in Sherbrooke, in 2018; the Centre for Contemporary Arts of Glasgow, in 2017; the Banff Centre, Alberta and the Vermont Studio Centre. Her work was presented in 2018 at the Musée régional de Rimouski and Optica, contemporary art centre, Montréal; at the Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in 2016; at the Musée de Lachine, Montréal, in 2015; at La Chambre Blanche, Québec City, as part of the Manif d’art 7 and at the Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario, in 2014.

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GENEVIÈVE CHEVALIER

Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University

Opening reception : Thursday, September 8, 2022 ‑ 5 pm

Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University

TRISSEMENTS

Geneviève Chevalier

In this residency project, Geneviève Chevalier uses a combined approach involving the Université Laval collection of avian skins and Sherbrooke-area farms to probe the status of certain Québec bird species like the swallow. Trissements, her work-in-progress, mainly takes the form of a video projection consisting of random photo/video combinations that are generated based on selected scientific and aesthetic criteria. These fleeting juxtapositions, some of which will only exist for the moment of their display, explore the hermetic world of natural history collecting by moving it virtually into the habitat of the targeted species. An accompanying virtual reality component immerses viewers in the outdoor sites, letting them see the birds, many of whom feed on insects while in flight, in their natural environment.

This research is part of a broader initiative entitled Mirement/Towering, and puts the Foreman Art Gallery in collaboration with Dazibao and Galerie UQO.

foreman.ubishops.ca/trissements